ALA/ALCTS Elections 2011

ALA Presidential Candidates for 2012–2013

Susan Stroyan and Maureen Sullivan are the candidates for the 2012–13 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA).

Stroyan (http://www.suestroyan.com/) is the Information Services Librarian at the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. She has held leadership positions in public, special, multi-type library system, and academic settings over the past thirty-four years.

Sullivan (http://maureensullivan.org/) serves as a consultant to numerous libraries of all types (academic, public, school, law. health sciences and other special libraries) and library consortia. In addition, she is a professor of practice in the Ph.D. program, Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions, at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Information from both candidates on issues relevant to ALCTS members was published in the December issue of ANOand is available now.

2011 Candidates for ALCTS President-Elect

Andrew Hart and Carolynne Myall

Andrew Hart, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSTATEMENT: ALCTS members are shaping and adapting to changes in the way librarians select, acquire, describe, preserve, and provide access to materials in an era of rapid technological development and uncertainty about how the information economy will evolve. ALCTS leaders must work to understand how such changes are manifested in the Association and, especially, how and why librarians participate in the Association’s activities. In the same way that administrators are looking closely at the relevance and value of every area of library operations—prioritizing goals when aspirations exceed resources—ALCTS is taking stock of how it meets the needs of its membership. The next division President will have to build on this process, facilitating changes that strengthen ALCTS and bring the best possible value to its members.

Carolynne Myall, Eastern Washington UniversitySTATEMENT: How can ALCTS enable its members to make distinctive, essential contributions and maintain its relevance in a dynamic environment where library functions are developing, merging, and transforming? Here are my starting points:

Enhance ALCTS’ role in presenting new research and defining best practice, through providing additional, varied forums for discussion and distribution;